kangaroo grass

noun

Any of various tussocky grasses of the genus Themeda, especially Themeda triandra.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounkangaroo grass (usually uncountable, plural kangaroo grasses)

plural kangaroo grasses

  1. AustraliauncountableusuallyAny of various tussocky grasses of the genus Themeda, especially Themeda triandra.First known use 19th c.

    The kangaroo grass in the Colac region of Western Victoria was so high it concealed the flocks of the first settler, G.T. Lloyd.

    2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 23
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    They walked through plains of silver tussock and kangaroo grass and pines 200 feet high, and discovered a pair of lakes that Laycock named “Kemp's Lakes” (now Lakes Sorell and Crescent).

    2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 51

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Chicago

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